A senior Hamas commander involved in masterminding the Oct. 7 attack against Israel was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike on Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday, APA reports.
The IDF said in a statement that the slain, named Ayman Showadeh, was a deputy commander of Hamas' Shejaiya Battalion in the current conflict and formerly a key operative in Hamas' operations headquarters.
Showadeh had directed numerous attacks against IDF troops, according to the statement.
The IDF claimed that this man was among more than 150 "terrorists" eliminated in recent IDF operations in the Shejaiya neighborhood of the city.
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